Fast-paced action combat
Black Prophecy is more action-oriented than a traditional space simulation. We are trying to avoid long travel times or other activities where the player isn't really doing anything.

Captivating Story
Black Prophecy's universe, story and background has been created by the award-winning Sci-Fi author Michael Marrak.

Modular ship design
Player ships are not sold as whole, but instead consist of modules like cockpits, wings, engines etc. All these modules are available in different shapes and sizes, which allows the players to customize their ships.

Item modification system
In addition to the modular ship design, players can also further customize their ships by adding modifications to their ship's modules and weapons.

Modular clan station system
Player clans can build clan stations that are expandable through a module system. Different modules add different functionalities to the station.

Resource system
Clans can fight each other to conquer resource stations.

Award and medal system
Similar to an achievement system, players can earn medals and awards for performing specific tasks.

Tactics system
Players can learn and execute breakneck flight manoeuvres

Black Prophecy's setting and story have been developed by the award-winning Sci-Fi author Michael Marrak.

1969
Neil Armstrong is the first man to step foot on the Earth moon Luna.

2019
First manned flight to Mars.

2026
First permanent research station on Mars (Reconnaissance IV).

2048
Foundation of the first Mars colony New Chrysee.

2064-2091
The Mars colonies Liaisville, Dao City, Vermilion and Nova Perm are founded. Thanks to an emigration wave from Earth, they quickly grow to a respectable size.

2082
Earth launches the first scout probes. Their goal is the discovery of earth like exoplanets that orbit their central star within its green zone.

2098
The five largest Mars colonies – financially and logistically supported by competing mining and trading companies – start to fight over power with the government seat of New Chrysee. This conflict is triggered by territorial and economic jealousies.

2106
First colony war.

2123
The scout probe Explorer 422 discovers a so-called second Earth in the Tau Ceti system, 11.9 light years away. The life-supporting planet is named Sabiador.

2145
Dawn of a new time and beginning of the interstellar exodus. The new computation of time Exon (derived from Exodus) replaces the Julian calendar Anno Domini (AD) outside the solar system.

2176 (Exon 31)
The first colony ship reaches Sabiador.

2188 (Exon 43)
Second Diaspora. Almost a third of humankind leaves the solar system.

2203 (Exon 58)
The first Genides are bred with the goal of optimizing the human body and to adjust it to the specific environmental situations of alien worlds. A majority of the population condemns the biogenesis project as an „insult to God“.

2226 (Exon 81)
Uncontrolled reproduction of Genides of the second and third generations. First race riots. The administration records a worrying increase in attacks on embryo incubation chambers.

2258 (Exon 113)
Banishment of the Genides from Sabiador. After a long odyssey, the find refuge on the planet Delta Pavonis II (d-Pav II), which they rename Geneera.

2279 (Exon 134)
The species wars are unilaterally declared over. Despite the Sabiador government’s massive efforts, the Jadd Baran do not recognize the peace treaty.

2287 (Exon 142)
The third council of Triloban Alta ratifies the Cybon treaties. They open the way for the creation of the Tyi-protectors, an army of cybernetically manipulated Sapiens. The trigger for this project is the increasing fear of a retaliatory attack by the Genides.

2302 (Exon 157)
Global persecution delirium. Beginning of the construction of Herons Belt, a gigantic defensive ring in Sabiador’s orbit that is supposed to encompass the whole planet and protect it from supposed Genide attacks.

2338 (Exon 193)
Even eighty years after their violent banishment from Sabiador, there is still no military revenge by the Genides against their creators. The first doubts about the use of the Tyi-protectors are voiced.

2339-2364 (Exon 194-219)
Cybernetic exodus. Many of the Tyi created on Sabiador are yearning for self-determination and leave for space, eventually founding the colonies Atebathos, Murna and Irata IV.

2361 (Exon 216)
Establishment of the first blood moons.

2373 (Exon 228)
Intimate relations between Genides and Tyi are declared a race crime and punished by death.

2389 (Exon 244)
Paust Garwan scores the longest hole-in-one of all times at the 18th quantum golf championships on Irata IV with his drill of a class one singularity over 0.488 parsec.

2401 (Exon 256)
The hybrid Silpha Uranir is born. As the child of a noble Genide and a high-ranking Tyi officer, unlike other gene bastards she is not killed immediately after birth, but receives a limited right to live. To this day she officially is the only child resulting from the forbidden union of these two human species.

2406 (Exon 261)
After 171 years without contact, a weak radio signal from Earth reaches the colony Murna. The puzzling message is encrypted primitively and only contains the words: cavete restauratores (beware of the Restorers).

2415 (Exon 270)
Banishment of Silpha Uranir to the blood moon Tarras.

2416 (Exon271)
Inferiority edict from Atebathos. Sapiens are degraded to second class individuals (Untermenschen). A few months after this „silent revolution“, the fate of Sapiens as former leaders of the human species is sealed with the enactment of the Prometheus laws on the Genide worlds. Key positions on all colonies are only awarded to Genides or Tyi.

2420 (Exon 275)
Silpha Uranir founds the church of the preservers in exile.

2422 (Exon 277)
Coda of Herons Belt. The colony Sabiador leaves the colonial community and completely isolates itself in the coming years.

2429 (Exon 284)
Murder of Silpha Uranir by a Jadd Baran hunter drone. Media reports that a conspiracy of Genides and Tyi is behind the attack are denied by both parties. Experts however suspect that those responsible had corrected their mistake of letting Silpha Uranir live, after she became too influential.

2444 (Exon 299)
The scientific research ship Baltazar begins a controversial voyage to the Sol system to discover the reasons for the warning received almost forty years earlier. The mission’s goal is Earth.

2458 (Exon 313)
Sipha Uranir is declared a saint, which leads to hefty protests by the Jadd Baran as well as almost all colonial governments. One of the Genide’s spiritual leaders claims that Uranir perversely abused her limited right to live by founding a religious movement in an environment of physically and psychologically weak individuals. Despite hefty protests, the construction of the Uranir protection temple as Sancta Sedes of the Preservers starts on Tarras.

2464 (Exon 319)
Inauguration of the Uranir temple. The first supreme Preserver, Primus Crahl, declares the blood moon Tarras as a galactic belief protectorate despite insistent warnings from the other colonial worlds.

2470 (Exon 325)
Nadzaar III. takes over leadership of Geneera. Under his aegis, a team of leading scientists develops a biological warfare agent Somnia aurea (Golden Sleep). After the first model tests were successful, a battle ship released a swarm of missiles loaded with Somnia aurea onto Tarras. 1,800,000 inhabitants immediately lost their lives in the explosions, an additional 2,300,000 died in the following four weeks. The event goes into history as the largest democide of the second species wars.

2506 (Exon 361)
The church of the Preservers is responsible for a new scandal by baptizing the first artificial life form. Despite the criticism voiced especially by the Jadd Baran, the android 27B-6 receives the sacraments. According to its own wishes, it is now allowed to carry the name Brahms 276. As a result, the church of the Preservers is joined by an unexpectedly large number of AIs.

2507 (Exon 362)
The Jadd Baran openly threaten to liquidate every android converted to the church of Preservers.

2512 (Exon 367)
First discovery of evidence of a non-human high culture (geoglyphs of Bara Kaitos)

2519 (Exon 374)
The church grants the android’s wishes to take the name of a classic terran componist after converting the church of the Preservers.

2526 (Exon 381)
Even though the second species wars have officially been declared over, the Genides and Tyi continue to fight over newly discovered colony worlds. The trigger for these loss-heavy conflicts are the interests of competing mining corporations to secure planetary resources.

2528 (Exon 383)
As a reaction to the dramatically increasing Jadd Baran attacks, the android Händel 69 creates the Andronian Guard on the new colony world Nara.

2535 (Exon 390)
Sarius Todor Cardin is named Primus on Tarras and takes over the office of the supreme Preserver. His first act is the Gotha edict, which stigmatizes the Jadd Baran as „subversive organization“. When the Baran further increased their aggressions, the church answers with the Anathema of Tarras. It outlaws the Jadd Baran and allows hunting and exterminating them.

2541 (Exon 396)
The only ones the Jadd Baran are not at war with are the Jadd Baran themselves.

2545 (Exon 400)
The androids Orff 83, Mundry 26 and Smetana 531 found the independent news channel Stellarvox Veritas. As it does not tolerate manipulation or censure, it rapidly becomes a target of attacks and sabotage.

2558 (Exon 413)
Council of Triamon.

Current time …
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Black Prophecy's setting and story have been developed by the award-winning Sci-Fi author Michael Marrak.

1969
Neil Armstrong is the first man to step foot on the Earth moon Luna.

2019
First manned flight to Mars.

2026
First permanent research station on Mars (Reconnaissance IV).

2048
Foundation of the first Mars colony New Chrysee.

2064-2091
The Mars colonies Liaisville, Dao City, Vermilion and Nova Perm are founded. Thanks to an emigration wave from Earth, they quickly grow to a respectable size.

2082
Earth launches the first scout probes. Their goal is the discovery of earth like exoplanets that orbit their central star within its green zone.

2098
The five largest Mars colonies – financially and logistically supported by competing mining and trading companies – start to fight over power with the government seat of New Chrysee. This conflict is triggered by territorial and economic jealousies.

2106
First colony war.

2123
The scout probe Explorer 422 discovers a so-called second Earth in the Tau Ceti system, 11.9 light years away. The life-supporting planet is named Sabiador.

2145
Dawn of a new time and beginning of the interstellar exodus. The new computation of time Exon (derived from Exodus) replaces the Julian calendar Anno Domini (AD) outside the solar system.

2176 (Exon 31)
The first colony ship reaches Sabiador.

2188 (Exon 43)
Second Diaspora. Almost a third of humankind leaves the solar system.

2203 (Exon 58)
The first Genides are bred with the goal of optimizing the human body and to adjust it to the specific environmental situations of alien worlds. A majority of the population condemns the biogenesis project as an „insult to God“.

2226 (Exon 81)
Uncontrolled reproduction of Genides of the second and third generations. First race riots. The administration records a worrying increase in attacks on embryo incubation chambers.

2258 (Exon 113)
Banishment of the Genides from Sabiador. After a long odyssey, the find refuge on the planet Delta Pavonis II (d-Pav II), which they rename Geneera.

2279 (Exon 134)
The species wars are unilaterally declared over. Despite the Sabiador government’s massive efforts, the Jadd Baran do not recognize the peace treaty.

2287 (Exon 142)
The third council of Triloban Alta ratifies the Cybon treaties. They open the way for the creation of the Tyi-protectors, an army of cybernetically manipulated Sapiens. The trigger for this project is the increasing fear of a retaliatory attack by the Genides.

2302 (Exon 157)
Global persecution delirium. Beginning of the construction of Herons Belt, a gigantic defensive ring in Sabiador’s orbit that is supposed to encompass the whole planet and protect it from supposed Genide attacks.

2338 (Exon 193)
Even eighty years after their violent banishment from Sabiador, there is still no military revenge by the Genides against their creators. The first doubts about the use of the Tyi-protectors are voiced.

2339-2364 (Exon 194-219)
Cybernetic exodus. Many of the Tyi created on Sabiador are yearning for self-determination and leave for space, eventually founding the colonies Atebathos, Murna and Irata IV.

2361 (Exon 216)
Establishment of the first blood moons.

2373 (Exon 228)
Intimate relations between Genides and Tyi are declared a race crime and punished by death.

2389 (Exon 244)
Paust Garwan scores the longest hole-in-one of all times at the 18th quantum golf championships on Irata IV with his drill of a class one singularity over 0.488 parsec.

2401 (Exon 256)
The hybrid Silpha Uranir is born. As the child of a noble Genide and a high-ranking Tyi officer, unlike other gene bastards she is not killed immediately after birth, but receives a limited right to live. To this day she officially is the only child resulting from the forbidden union of these two human species.

2406 (Exon 261)
After 171 years without contact, a weak radio signal from Earth reaches the colony Murna. The puzzling message is encrypted primitively and only contains the words: cavete restauratores (beware of the Restorers).

2415 (Exon 270)
Banishment of Silpha Uranir to the blood moon Tarras.

2416 (Exon271)
Inferiority edict from Atebathos. Sapiens are degraded to second class individuals (Untermenschen). A few months after this „silent revolution“, the fate of Sapiens as former leaders of the human species is sealed with the enactment of the Prometheus laws on the Genide worlds. Key positions on all colonies are only awarded to Genides or Tyi.

2420 (Exon 275)
Silpha Uranir founds the church of the preservers in exile.

2422 (Exon 277)
Coda of Herons Belt. The colony Sabiador leaves the colonial community and completely isolates itself in the coming years.

2429 (Exon 284)
Murder of Silpha Uranir by a Jadd Baran hunter drone. Media reports that a conspiracy of Genides and Tyi is behind the attack are denied by both parties. Experts however suspect that those responsible had corrected their mistake of letting Silpha Uranir live, after she became too influential.

2444 (Exon 299)
The scientific research ship Baltazar begins a controversial voyage to the Sol system to discover the reasons for the warning received almost forty years earlier. The mission’s goal is Earth.

2458 (Exon 313)
Sipha Uranir is declared a saint, which leads to hefty protests by the Jadd Baran as well as almost all colonial governments. One of the Genide’s spiritual leaders claims that Uranir perversely abused her limited right to live by founding a religious movement in an environment of physically and psychologically weak individuals. Despite hefty protests, the construction of the Uranir protection temple as Sancta Sedes of the Preservers starts on Tarras.

2464 (Exon 319)
Inauguration of the Uranir temple. The first supreme Preserver, Primus Crahl, declares the blood moon Tarras as a galactic belief protectorate despite insistent warnings from the other colonial worlds.

2470 (Exon 325)
Nadzaar III. takes over leadership of Geneera. Under his aegis, a team of leading scientists develops a biological warfare agent Somnia aurea (Golden Sleep). After the first model tests were successful, a battle ship released a swarm of missiles loaded with Somnia aurea onto Tarras. 1,800,000 inhabitants immediately lost their lives in the explosions, an additional 2,300,000 died in the following four weeks. The event goes into history as the largest democide of the second species wars.

2506 (Exon 361)
The church of the Preservers is responsible for a new scandal by baptizing the first artificial life form. Despite the criticism voiced especially by the Jadd Baran, the android 27B-6 receives the sacraments. According to its own wishes, it is now allowed to carry the name Brahms 276. As a result, the church of the Preservers is joined by an unexpectedly large number of AIs.

2507 (Exon 362)
The Jadd Baran openly threaten to liquidate every android converted to the church of Preservers.

2512 (Exon 367)
First discovery of evidence of a non-human high culture (geoglyphs of Bara Kaitos)

2519 (Exon 374)
The church grants the android’s wishes to take the name of a classic terran componist after converting the church of the Preservers.

2526 (Exon 381)
Even though the second species wars have officially been declared over, the Genides and Tyi continue to fight over newly discovered colony worlds. The trigger for these loss-heavy conflicts are the interests of competing mining corporations to secure planetary resources.

2528 (Exon 383)
As a reaction to the dramatically increasing Jadd Baran attacks, the android Händel 69 creates the Andronian Guard on the new colony world Nara.

2535 (Exon 390)
Sarius Todor Cardin is named Primus on Tarras and takes over the office of the supreme Preserver. His first act is the Gotha edict, which stigmatizes the Jadd Baran as „subversive organization“. When the Baran further increased their aggressions, the church answers with the Anathema of Tarras. It outlaws the Jadd Baran and allows hunting and exterminating them.

2541 (Exon 396)
The only ones the Jadd Baran are not at war with are the Jadd Baran themselves.

2545 (Exon 400)
The androids Orff 83, Mundry 26 and Smetana 531 found the independent news channel Stellarvox Veritas. As it does not tolerate manipulation or censure, it rapidly becomes a target of attacks and sabotage.

2558 (Exon 413)
Council of Triamon.

Current time …

Introduction

In the 26th century, mankind has expanded across the galaxy, yet only few of its colonies are controlled by Humans. The true rulers are the cybernetically enhanced Tyi and the biogenetically perfected Genides. Their striving for total control over all human species drives them into the territory of an ancient alien race that does not tolerate other cosmic civilisations: the “Restorers”.

To survive this war and uncover the motives of the alien’s destructive behaviour, you are forced to join one of the two dominant human races. Their search for the origin of the Restorers becomes a race for survival of all three human species.

The Tyi

The Tyi-protectors were created after the first species wars and are the second superhuman species besides the Genides. Contrary to their genetically manipulated arch-enemies, they have completely devoted their bodies to cybernetics (at first as part of the project, later of their own will).

The trigger for the cybernetic project on Sabiador was its inhabitants' increasing fear of a retaliatory strike by the Genides that surpassed them both physically and mentally. The designation Tyi [pronounced Tai] is an abbreviation for Tactical Yeomen Inhabitants (T.Y.I.).

Almost a century after the creation of the first Tyi-protectors, the burning desire for independence awoke in this new human species that was already in the millions – it peaked in the so-called cybernetic exodus. Many of the Tyi created on Sabiador traveled through space and founded the now powerful colonies Atebathos, Murna and Irata IV.

The Tyi have superhuman strength and endurance. They are resistant to radiation, have independent bloodstreams as well as backup organs, speak all languages and are true multitaskers. They also gather and process data at an increased rate.

The Genides

To be able to better resist the unusual and partially hostile environments in space and on the colony planets, the colonists started experimenting with physical and psychic manipulations on select test subjects a long time ago. The first positive experiments probably took place shortly after the second diaspora started. While some preferred manipulations at the cybernetic level, in form of implants, technical extremities and artificial organs, others did not trust body-bound technology and completely focused on the many possibilities of biogenesis.

The first of the two new human species was created on Sabiador, the apparently aesthetic Genides. They require barely any sleep, heal wounds quickly and can communicate telepathically. In addition, most of them are resistant to disease and epidemics, think faster, detect ultra- and infra-sounds and have a long life expectancy.

After the first species wars and the expulsion of the Genides from Sabiador, six million refugees found a new home on the planet Delta Pavonis II. After being renamed to Geneera, the planet rapidly developed into a respectable economic power.

New generation Genides are exceptionally slim, tall and cultivate very aesthetic bodies. Their heads and bodies are completely hairless (aside from the eyebrows, which are considered a beauty attribute), as body hair is considered a relic of evolution. They wear synthetic or half-organic headgear instead, in form of imaginative wigs, hoods, hats, cloth, etc. as well as organic or half-organic, partially transparent and often also bioluminescent suits.

The Genides' feudal society is based on a pre modern, aristocratically dominated culture, which has taken a military orientation due to the constant threat by the Jadd Baran and the Tyi.